Friday, October 30, 2009

Sisters Who Would Be Queen

Leanda DeLisle tells the story of the three doomed Grey sisters: Jane, Katherine, and Mary, who, under both Henry VIII and his son Edward's wills, were next in line to inherit the Tudor crown, since Henry's daughters Mary and Elizabeth were both considered illegitimate. It's hard to find anything about Jane Grey, and even harder to find anything about her two sisters, which is unfortunate, because their stories are really interesting. It was a great book that cleared up a lot of misconceptions about Jane's doomed nine day reign as Queen as well as the sad fates of her two sisters.

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